As medical students become physicians, they need to learn todiagnose and manage clinical problems a process oftenreferred to as developing clinical reasoning skills. Researchershave been exploring the nature of clinical diagnostic reasoningfor more than three decades. The initial interest was sparkedby a new generation of medical schools, such as those at McMasterUniversity and Michigan State University, whose curricula wereexplicitly directed toward teaching and learning about "clinicalproblem-solving." Little was known about the process, but thebelief was that if it were better understood, we could teachit more effectively. In this issue . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Norman is a professor of clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, and psychology and the assistant dean of the Programme for Educational Research and Development at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
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